pomade

See also: Pomade and pomádé

English

Etymology

From French pommade (“ointment”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian pomata, from pomo (“apple”), as such ointments were originally made from apples, + -ata (“(collective)”) (English -ade). Pomo is in turn from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pomum.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

pomade (countable and uncountable, plural pomades)

1. A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.
2. (obsolete) Any medicinal ointment.

Translations

greasy substance

• Arabic: مَرْهَم m (marham)
• Azerbaijani: məlhəm, pomada
• Bengali: মলম (molom)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 髮蠟／发蜡 (zh) (fàlà), 发蜡 (zh) (fàlà)

• Czech: pomáda (cs) f
• Finnish: hiusrasva (fi), pomada (fi)
• French: pommade (fr) f
• German: Pomade (de) f
• Hindi: मरहम (hi) m (marham)
• Hungarian: pomádé
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ポマード (pomādo)
• Korean: 포마드 (pomadeu)
• Persian: مرهم (fa) (marham), پماد (fa) (pomâd)
• Russian: пома́да (ru) f (pomáda)
• Spanish: brillantilla f, pomada de pelo f
• Tagalog: pomada
• Tajik: марҳам (marham)
• Turkish: pomat (tr), merhem (tr)
• Turkmen: melhem
• Urdu: مرہم m (marham)
• Volapük: hereminugvet

Verb

1. (transitive) To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair).

   He pomaded his hair until it looked like a piece of shiny plastic.

Anagrams

• apedom

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʊˈmɑːdə]

Noun

pomade

1. pomade